Topic: Photosynthesis
and Respiration
Liken between
the Dyad
Life began in the producers and it
ends up in the consumers. Absolutely plants are the first level of food chain
that usually down into food web and known as primary manufacturer, to balance
the needs of ecosystem. Without them the superior predators like animals and
human could not survive because they would not have food and energy that is their
primer necessitate. Animals and plants are both synthesizing lipid and proteins
from carbohydrates; therefore glucose (sugar) is the basic needs for energy
source for all organisms alive. Vegetables and plants are autotrophs that can
make their own food through the route of photosynthesis; the food comes up with
the radiant light of the sun, carbon dioxide from the air, and water from the
soil and converting it in the form of sugar. In photosynthesis plants also
produce oxygen which left in the air for the needs of human. The oxygen
released with water vapor in transpiration, as a photosynthetic product and
provides atmospheric oxygen where that is the vital part for respiration of all
the eukaryotes; the animals eliminate it and turn into carbon dioxide that
necessary to every plant. The word Photosynthesis was first use in Latin word,
around 1898 with the findings of different scientist. Photosynthesis involves
two significant stages. In light dependent, light energy splits water molecules
into oxygen and hydrogen ions; in chloroplast up to thylakoids these reaction
occurs when the sun’s light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll. Light energy is
converted into stored chemical energy in the form of ATP the provider of energy
in plants and NADPH the supplier of electrons. On the other hand the antonym of
photosynthesis is the respiration were the set of metabolic reactions and
process which take place in the cell. Where in this process mitochondria break
down foods to produce ATP; there are two types of respiration the Aerobic Respiration;
were plenty supply of oxygen are needed and
the Anaerobic Respiration; were oxygen is not need at all; moreover respiration
have three stages the Glycolisis, Kreb
Cycle and electron transport chain. The origin of respiration is from the Latin
word respiratio from respire and was first used in 15th
century.
Photosynthesis and Respiration are quite opposite processes but same
function; the main goal of Photosynthetic process is to convert light into
glucose for chuck, it takes place in
green plants, algae, seaweeds and other bacteria carrying green hue. Those
organisms serve as factories of sugar and manufacturers of billions molecules
of food. That glucose is used as sources of energy for plant growth and
reproduction. Plants store the excess glucose in form of carbohydrates and
starch in stems, leaves and roots; and the aims of Respiration is to make
Adenosine Tri-phosphate to supply energy for many biochemical cellular
processes by undergoing enzymatic hydrolysis. Both camps have their own
strength and weaknesses or advantages and disadvantages. Try to look the
difference between two processes Photosynthesis have the following: It takes
place in Chloroplast. Carbon dioxide and water react, using sunlight energy to
produce glucose and oxygen. Light energy is transformed into chemical energy in
glucose. On the other side Respiration have these: It takes place in mitochondria.
Glucose and oxygen react to produce carbon dioxide, water and energy (ATP).
Chemical energy in glucose is converted into chemical energy in ATP. Strain the
similarity they are both process, they need water, electrons are transport on
respiration and photosynthesis and they are important to the environment.
Everything living organism is
dependable on Photosynthesis; it provides the basic energy need. This is the
vital to life on earth. Photosynthesis and Cellular respiration work together
as a team in a never-ending cycle, together the recycle of oxygen and other
molecules allowing humans to breathe. Even though both of them have own process
and uses still they are helping to each other, to balance the system of every
living organism in this world and they bring back the life when both of them do
the process functionally.
